Teeming thousands of desperate Afghans and others on the runway at Kabul airport has forced a German military plane to divert and refuel without evacuating anyone on the ground. Meanwhile, American-German Chancellor Angela Merkel bemoaned the lack of ‘success’ in Afghanistan.
The departure of American troops from Afghanistan is being lamented as a defeat. Not quite: Not from the point of view of the US military arms making complex and the political elite who invested in war. For them, the Afghan occupation has been a thunderous success. Trillions of taxpayer dollars have flowed through their budgets and profits over the two decades in which despite public cynicism and disapproval they successfully maintained the operation.
No sooner had the Taliban taken Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan with barely any resistance from the Western-trained and equipped security forces, and Western politicians are already lining up at television studios to declare their resolve to import hundreds of thousands of Afghans into their countries.
The 60th anniversary of apportioning of overrun Germany was followed by the sickening division of what was once Europe’s greatest city by the West and the Soviet Union.
Such has been the collapse or the inertia of each European Union’s state and the United Kingdom that people realise the only way to stop the waves of migrants invading Europe’s shores and frontiers is to man their own border guard.
Sadly, few boys these days have meaningful relationships with male mentors and father figures, men who can teach and inspire them. Some boys grow up without having been taught by a male teacher or are taught by teachers who have no life or work experience outside of a classroom.
BREAKING NEWS: A former Afghan interpreter who once worked with ex-UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been repeatedly denied sanctuary in Britain, preventing him from being rescued from the Taliban, a retired senior British officer has warned, according to the Daily Mail.
A British jihadi bride who lost an arm in an airstrike is living in a £500,000 council house and has been fitted with a prosthetic limb, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Samia Hussein was injured when coalition forces launched an attack on a weapons store next to her home in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which was under the control of Islamic State.
Overwhelmed by refugees fleeing NATO’s conflicts in North Africa, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan the patience and tolerance of Europeans have passed the breaking point.
Two great bronze horses sculpted by Josef Thorak for Adolf Hitler’s New Reich Chancellery that were abandoned on a Soviet military base in East Germany will become American-German government property after a legal settlement with the collector who acquired them, according to the German culture ministry.
If you get to Spain this summer, watch your tongue. A careless word construed as sympathetic to General Francisco Franco, who despite Washington DC sanctions successfully ruled Spain from his victory in the country’s civil war (1936-9) until his death in 1975 could land you with a fine.
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